Locus Award

The Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel is the fantasy companion to the Locus SF Award. Voted on by Locus readers, it honors the best fantasy novel of the year.

Fantasy novels published in the previous year; reader poll of Locus subscribers.

2024

• Witch King — winner

2021

• The City We Became — winner

2020

• Middlegame — winner

2019

• Spinning Silver — winner

2018

• The Stone Sky — winner

2016

• Uprooted — winner

2014

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane — winner

2013

• The Apocalypse Codex — winner

2012

• A Dance with Dragons — winner

2009

• Lavinia — winner

2008

• Making Money — winner

2007

• The Privilege of the Sword — winner

2006

• Anansi Boys — winner

2004

• Paladin of Souls — winner

2002

• American Gods — winner

2001

• A Storm of Swords — winner

2000

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — winner

1999

• A Clash of Kings — winner

1998

• Earthquake Weather — winner

1997

• A Game of Thrones — winner

1996

• Alvin Journeyman — winner

1995

• Brittle Innings — winner

1994

• The Innkeeper's Song — winner

1993

• Last Call — winner

1992

• Beauty — winner

1990

• Prentice Alvin — winner

1989

• Red Prophet — winner

1988

• Seventh Son — winner

1987

• Soldier of the Mist — winner

1986

• Trumps of Doom — winner

1984

• The Mists of Avalon — winner

1983

• The Sword of the Lictor — winner

1982

• The Claw of the Conciliator — winner

1980

• Harpist in the Wind — winner

1978

• The Silmarillion — winner